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I hope you don’t get too mad at me for the satirical title I used in order to draw you to this missive. I promise though that my actions are not gratuitous for there is a purpose behind my Monday morning antics. Let me assure regular readers of the Ghion Journal first and foremost that
Courageous truth teller. Those were the three words that I once used to describe Rachel Maddow. This was back during the Bush years, when Maddow regularly took the Bush administration to task, called out the immorality of GW’s war of choice and highlighted the malicious nature of Bush’s economic policies. Rachel was my hero; the
There are sheep in our midst who bleat banality and pretend that they are a part of our herd warning of impending wolves who are after us and our children. Ah but these sheep are cunning for these sheep are no sheep at all; they are wolves dressed to the nines pretending to be of
Not too long ago, I was a part of the very frivolousness I am pointing out in this article. This was back when I was a social media justice warrior who occasionally attended one protest or another only to return to the comforts of my corporate cubicle clinker. While eating from the belly of the beast, I
We are on the cusp of a symbolic gesture meant to appease the public and perpetuate the farce that we the people are in charge of this nation. The symbolism I am referring to is the changeover in power—out goes Obama and in comes Trump. In other words, meet the new boss, same as the
